tick
noun
- covering for a mattress or pillow, stuffed with feathers, down, or other material
- symbol used to indicate that something is correct
- tiny blood-sucking arachnid
- regularly occurring sound made by, for example, a watch or clock
verb
- move position on a scale
- mark (with a tick mark)
- make sounds like a clock
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɪk/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
- A goat.
“Tickhill, Tickham, Ticknock, Tickenhall Drive, Tickenhill Manor, Tickenhurst”
verb
Etymology: Clipping of ticket.
- To go on trust, or credit.
- To give tick; to trust.